Archive for November 21st, 2007

Flying Imams Update

Accord­ing to this Wash­ing­ton Post Arti­cle, the Fly­ing Imams’ law­suit sur­vived a motion to dis­miss yes­ter­day. But the arti­cle does not tell the whole story. In fact, the arti­cle mis­rep­re­sents Judge Montgomery’s deci­sion as an unqual­i­fied vic­tory for CAIR and the Fly­ing Imams. I have read the rul­ing, and offer a brief sum­mary of its effect on the suit. The deci­sion rules on sev­eral motions: U.S. Air­ways’ Motion to Dis­miss U.S. Air­ways’ Motion for Sum­mary Judg­ment MAC’s Motion to Dis­miss Plain­tiffs’ Rule 56(f) Motion Plain­tiffs’ Motion to Strike I. MAC’s Motion to Dis­miss MAC is the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Air­port Com­mis­sion, a state actor. This is a FRCP [ . . . ]

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2007
11/21
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Blue Laws

Ari Arm­strong, the Soft­ware Nerd, and Gus Van Horn have recently dis­cussed so-​​​​called “Blue Laws.” Ari dis­cusses the Den­ver Post’s edi­to­r­ial sup­port for a Col­orado leg­isla­tive push to over­turn that state’s Sun­day alco­hol sales pro­hi­bi­tions. Soft­ware Nerd men­tions the Supreme Court’s deci­sion in Gal­lagher v. Crown Kosher Super Mar­ket of Mass., Inc., 366 U.S. 617 (1961). Gal­lagher is one of three cases on Blue Laws (specif­i­cally Sun­day Clos­ing laws, requir­ing cer­tain busi­nesses to close on Sun­days, often includ­ing alco­hol and liquor retail­ers), decided on the same day in 1961. Gal­lagher and Braun­feld v. Brown, 366 U.S. 599 (1961) both con­cern Blue Laws [ . . . ]

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2007
11/21
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